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**Maggy** · 25-04-2005, 17:03

The trouble is that not knowing your tastes it's very hard to make suggestions.Are you into heavy literature,light reading?What genre interests you?Or will you read anything including cereal packets?

Iain M Banks for SF or his alter ego Iain Banks for some of the weirdest modern fiction.His Sf 'Culture' books are how SF should be written.His 'everyday' fiction is excellent but is Literature with the capital letter.

My absolute favourite SF writer is CJ Cherryh.

I tend to leave what I call modern literature alone mainly because I hate reading about everyday lives.I'm already living one of those.

I like stuff that takes me away to other places,cultures,times,worlds.SF and Fantasy do that for me.However it may not be to your liking..

However I do like the occasional crime novel(quite like Ian Rankin and Lee Childs)and I'm a secret Georgette Heyer lover..

I guess my favourite novel of all time though is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen followed by Little Dorrit by Dickens.

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Maggy The Invisible Woman Cable Forum Mod Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: between Portsmouth and Southampton. Age: 74 Services: VM XL TV,50 MB VM BB,VM landline, Tivo Posts: 40,379	Re: What books would you reccomend? The trouble is that not knowing your tastes it's very hard to make suggestions.Are you into heavy literature,light reading?What genre interests you?Or will you read anything including cereal packets? Iain M Banks for SF or his alter ego Iain Banks for some of the weirdest modern fiction.His Sf 'Culture' books are how SF should be written.His 'everyday' fiction is excellent but is Literature with the capital letter. My absolute favourite SF writer is CJ Cherryh. I tend to leave what I call modern literature alone mainly because I hate reading about everyday lives.I'm already living one of those. I like stuff that takes me away to other places,cultures,times,worlds.SF and Fantasy do that for me.However it may not be to your liking.. However I do like the occasional crime novel(quite like Ian Rankin and Lee Childs)and I'm a secret Georgette Heyer lover.. I guess my favourite novel of all time though is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen followed by Little Dorrit by Dickens. __________________ Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Shakespeare..